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Sep 17, 2026 8 min

Texting Cabbage with a Recorder - Computerphile

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How many words can you type if you are restricted to a musical typewriter? HackSocNotts competed in a hack-athon and came up with this! Hackathons are endurance coding events which can lead to all sorts of strange hybrid ideas becoming reality.Correction: at 3mins in Paula meant to say 2 to the power 8 (2^8) not 8 factorial.Hashing Algorithms: COMING SOON!Musical Floppy Drives: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3dU5u4xXaYhttp://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

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